Lori Bean Henderson discusses the Palmyra legacy. These are notes I took at the 2019 Book of Mormon conference. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– Fighting preacher: is a movie about a guy serving a mission and living in the old Joseph Smith home. It is about the fighting preacher. Bean’s mission lasted about 24 years.
– Willard Bean born in Provo 1868.
– Sister Bean: gave many firesides.
– Documents KSL: return to sacred ground.
– Based on a truce story> but not entirely accurate.
– 1914: called on the mission.
– Age 18i> was a camp caretaker with the brothers.
– Age 22 (1890) fill a mission as an ordnance worker. One day he did 11K baptisms in one session. Highest amount.
– President Grant said he never knew anyone who could quote as many scriptures as Bean.
– He never got official training in boxing.
– Got 5 gold metals during college.
– Middleweight champion of western Utah.
– Named Mormon cyclone.
– He became a gifted speaker at political meetings in NY.
– Called on a mission for 5 yrs. or longer.
– 4 assignments. A. Make friends b. Farmed the land c. Baptize converts d. Started a branch of the church
– The man who sprayed water became bean’s best defenders.
– Wonderful feeling in the room for sister bean when a bunch of ministers and 5 teachers came to the house to harass her.
– Kids learned how to give the same tours as their parents.
– Book love unfeigned> book. Documentary.
– He arranged for a boxing competition. 1-2 fights lasted only seconds. 3-6 fights didn’t last an entire round
– The son got the brunt of bullying and abuse. The son of Bean not the daughter was the one who had desk nailed away from the other students.
– Br. Bean would go around different areas around Palmyra research and copy articles from old newspapers and sent them to church authorities.
– Fist branch 1926 in Palmyra had 3 families.
– Worked on buying different church properties.
– Bought the Camorra hill land, 3 surround properties and a building for 53K instead of original 25K
– The wife fed and housed 300 visitors and missionaries a month.
– Plowing a field. they found a skeleton figure 8 feet high. The skull was as big as a basked ball. Used to play with them as helmets.
– 1812 dwit? Clinton: gave a presentation of a great nation that inhabited that land. Why do we have no history exist? If there is a history it will be encrypted on stone or metal.
– Maybe 29 yrs.
– We are doing honor to a family who came in yrs. ago. Some of our super pious citizens started a tirade. We soon learned to tolerate them. We learned to respect them. Now we love them.